Speaker
Andrei Constantin
(University of Oxford)
Description
The first part of the talk reviews some recent progress in identifying realistic models of particle physics in the context of heterotic strings on Calabi-Yau threefolds with line bundle sums, focusing on the question of deriving the flavour parameters of the Standard Model. The second part discusses the role played by line bundle cohomology in understanding the birational geometry of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
